Usually means: Wrapping infants snugly in cloth.
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  1. swaddling: Merriam-Webster
  2. swaddling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. swaddling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Swaddling, swaddling: Wordnik
  5. swaddling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. swaddling: Wiktionary
  7. swaddling: Dictionary.com
  8. Swaddling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Swaddling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. swaddling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Swaddling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. swaddling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. swaddling: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Swaddling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. swaddling: Legal dictionary

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  1. swaddling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. swaddling: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  2. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  3. swaddling: Medical dictionary

(Note: See swaddle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (swaddling)

noun:  The practice of wrapping infants in clothing that restricts movement.
noun:  Clothing of this kind.

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